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Cordaites   Listen
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Cordaites  n.  A genus of tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; they were structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers.
Synonyms: genus Cordaites.






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... terrestrial arthropoda is necessarily thrown back into the Cambrian epoch, if not earlier. And this cannot be considered improbable in view of the highly differentiated land plants—ferns, equisetums, and lycopods—in the Middle or Lower Silurian, and even a conifer (Cordaites Robbii) in the Upper Silurian; while the beds of graphite in the Laurentian were probably formed ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace



Words linked to "Cordaites" :   genus Cordaites, gymnosperm genus, Cordaitaceae, family Cordaitaceae



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